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The Motley Fool May 21, 2009 Brian Orelli	Not So Fast, Schering ... er, Merck ... er, Whoever You Are Merck got cute with its acquisition of Schering-Plough by setting up the merger so that Schering is technically merging with Merck and then changing its name to Merck. That seemingly schizophrenic move had a purpose.
The Motley Fool October 27, 2009 Brian Orelli	Pfizer's and Merck's Loss Is These Companies' Gain Are Pfizer and Merck too busy integrating now to take advantage of additional acquisitions?
The Motley Fool April 15, 2011 Brian Orelli	Dark Clouds Lift Over Pharma Dispute The case of who bought whom in the Merck -Schering-Plough deal has ended in a draw.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2009 Brian Orelli	2009: The Year Pharma Learned to Love Itself While anything is possible, don't expect too much more consolidation of major drugmakers in 2010 and beyond.
The Motley Fool June 15, 2010 Brian Orelli	Pfizer Focuses, Investors Should Cheer The culling of the pipeline continues at Pfizer. While that's bad news for partners that signed on with the company or with Wyeth before the merger it's a good move for Pfizer.
The Motley Fool November 4, 2009 Brian Orelli	An Ode to Schering-Plough Mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical industry are cataloged in a poem.
The Motley Fool August 7, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Billion-Dollar Lovers' Quarrel It looks like the triangle between partners Elan and Biogen Idec and third-wheel Johnson & Johnson over the multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri is going to get settled in court.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2009 Robert Steyer	Drugmakers Diversify -- Again Merck and Pfizer choose businesses they once eschewed.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2009 Robert Steyer	Just Say No to Drug Company Mergers There are some reasons to make a big-pharma deal. But there are as many, if not more, reasons to let these companies pursue smaller deals and collaborations rather than become just another part of a hyphenated corporate name.
The Motley Fool December 29, 2009 Brian Orelli	Some Brand-Name Patents: Going, Going, Gone in 2010 Generic drug competition is coming for Lipitor, Plavix, and others.
The Motley Fool March 12, 2009 Brian Orelli	2 Suitors Are Better Than 1 Recent drug company acquisitions prove that competition benefits shareholders.
The Motley Fool September 3, 2009 Brian Orelli	Now That's How to Grow a Company! Dear Pfizer and Merck, you really should take note of how Abbott Labs is growing.
The Motley Fool May 4, 2010 Brian Orelli	Earnings Growth Trumps Revenue Growth, Except Here A solid quarter for Pfizer, but is there more in the tank?
The Motley Fool September 15, 2009 Brian Orelli	What's $115 Million Between Friends? Elan has to fix the mess it had gotten itself into with its multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2009 Brian Orelli	Johnson & Johnson's Simponi Sticks to the Wall Johnson & Johnson gets its second-generation TNF-alpha inhibitor past the FDA.
The Motley Fool January 29, 2010 Brian Orelli	How to Make Billions of Dollars Without Really Trying Lackluster Alzheimer's drugs have been doing it for years.
The Motley Fool March 2, 2010 Brian Orelli	Merck: Poised for Growth and Eager to Go Merck needs its new, stronger, post-acquisition pipeline to pay off.
The Motley Fool March 18, 2009 Brian Orelli	Merck Pummels Pfizer One of these acquisitions is not like the other.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2011 Brian Orelli	Biotech Winners of a Repatriation Holiday Biotechs and dividend players will come out ahead.
The Motley Fool December 17, 2009 Brian Orelli	This Acquisition Hears, Smells, and Tastes Soooo Good Johnson & Johnson picks up an ear, nose, and throat medical device maker.
The Motley Fool March 26, 2009 Brian Orelli	Big Pharma's R&D Model Is Broken Bigger isn't always better.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2009 Brian Orelli	Johnson & Johnson Inflames Abbott $1.67 billion is one hefty reward.
The Motley Fool July 8, 2011 Brian Orelli	Half a Breakup Is Better Than No Breakup at All Pfizer keeps two divisions and puts two on the chopping block.
The Motley Fool September 1, 2009 Brian Orelli	Merck to Bride: Leave the Jewelry at Home The new Merck will look a lot like the old Merck at the top, even though about 40% of Schering's senior leaders will be headed to the new company.
Chemistry World August 9, 2012	Bapineuzunab dropped Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson have announced that they are ending development of the intravenous Alzheimer's drug bapineuzumab after it failed in two clinical trials.
The Motley Fool August 10, 2010 Brian Orelli	Elan's Alternative to Strategic Alternatives Sometimes doing nothing is the best option.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Mini-Pfizer in the Making Bristol-Myers Squibb looks like its setting itself up to be the next Pfizer.
The Motley Fool July 2, 2009 Brian Orelli	Squeezing Blood From a Half-Dollar Johnson & Johnson is investing $1 billion in Elan in exchange for an 18.4% stake in the company.
The Motley Fool March 9, 2009 Brian Orelli	Merck-Schering Trumps Pfizer-Wyeth The new Merck deal looks a lot better than a combined Pfizer plus Wyeth.
The Motley Fool November 9, 2010 Brian Orelli	Forget R&D; Buy Your Way Into Diagnostics Eli Lilly is expanding its diagnostics business by picking up privately held Avid Radiopharmaceuticals.
The Motley Fool January 17, 2012 Brian Orelli	You Can Forget About Seeing This Drug Work Medivation and Pfizer's Dimebon fails again.
The Motley Fool September 4, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Billion-Dollar Lovers' Quarrel Continues Elan had better bring candy and flowers to patch this up.
The Motley Fool February 26, 2010 Brian Orelli	Drug Company Cost Cuts: Careful What You Wish For Research and development is the lifeblood of future revenue.
The Motley Fool September 29, 2011 Brian Orelli	Joint-Venture Acid Reflux Merck ditches its joint venture with Johnson & Johnson.
The Motley Fool August 14, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Schizophrenic Drug Approval Schering's drug gets a thumbs-up.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2008 Brian Orelli	Best Stock for 2009: Pfizer Pfizer's languishing stock price has made the company so much more attractive; it could see a breakout in 2009.
The Motley Fool June 1, 2009 Brian Orelli	Going Up for All the Wrong Reasons Bristol-Myers has been identified as Elan's mystery bidder. So what?
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	Only the Strong Survive at Pfizer The culling of the pipeline isn't as bad as it sounds.
The Motley Fool February 3, 2011 Brian Orelli	Get Ready for Merck's Bumpy Ride Long-term earnings guidance gets thrown out the window.
The Motley Fool March 4, 2011 Brian Orelli	Pfizer's Biggest Shot at Lipitor 2.0 It might need a little help from competitors.
The Motley Fool March 3, 2010 Brian Orelli	A Costly Missed Connection Dimebon's phase 3 failure costs Medivation shareholders 67%.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	The Biggest Development-Stage Drugmaker, Ever Eli Lilly seems to have a lot more in common with its development-stage little brothers than it does with its big pharma brethren.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2011 Brian Orelli	Show Us the Money, Drugmakers Drugmakers have cash and they aren't afraid to use it -- on themselves.
The Motley Fool December 22, 2009 Brian Orelli	Some Incyte Into Why These Drugs Rock Eli Lilly jumps on the oral-drug-for-rheumatoid-arthritis bandwagon.
The Motley Fool December 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	No Guts, No Glory For better or worse, Elan gains full control of Alzheimer's drug ELND005.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2011 Brian Orelli	3 Things More Important to Pfizer Than Losing Lipitor It's not like we didn't see it coming.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2008 Brian Orelli	Pharma, Cash, and You Pharma's been saving for a rainy day, and there's a thunderstorm outside.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2007 Brian Lawler	Lasting Longer Courtesy of Elan Elan announces that partner Johnson & Johnson has filed a marketing application for a once-a-month form of its anti-psychotic drug Invega. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2009 Brian Orelli	More Questions Than Answers From Elan Things that make you go hmmm.
The Motley Fool May 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	Innovators Will Rule the Economic Crisis Roche's CEO says two areas of health care can prosper. I agree.